Cafef

What Cafef does

Cafef (Kênh thông tin kinh tế - tài chính Việt Nam) is a Vietnamese digital financial media and market-data platform that has operated continuously since 2007. The platform combines a Vietnamese-language news portal covering the full spectrum of the economy — equities (chứng khoán), banking (ngân hàng), real estate (bất động sản), macroeconomics (vĩ mô), and international finance (tài chính quốc tế) — with a structured suite of data products. Its core technical assets include the Bảng giá điện tử (Liveboard) real-time electronic stock price board hosted at liveboard.cafef.vn, a portfolio tracking tool (Danh mục đầu tư), ranking lists (CafeF Lists covering Top 200 richest stock-market participants, Top 50 women, top families), and complementary data products spanning gold/silver prices, interest and FX rates, commodities, fund certificates, lottery results, and sports data. Supporting modules include technical analysis tools (Công cụ PTKT), analyst reports (Báo cáo phân tích), shareholder meeting schedules (Lịch ĐHCĐ), and corporate disclosure updates (Cập nhật KQKD). The platform also operates a digital Magazine/eMagazine sub-brand and the AGM Awards corporate-governance recognition program.

Cafef is privately held and operates as a media property under Vietnamese internet conglomerate Công ty Cổ phần VCCorp, headquartered at Level 21, Center Building, No. 01 Nguyen Huy Tuong Street, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi. It holds a regulated electronic information portal license (Giấy phép 2216/GP-TTĐT issued April 10, 2019). It serves three primary audience segments: Vietnamese retail investors and stock traders (primary), business professionals and corporate executives, and financial institutions (banks, securities firms, insurance companies). End-user access is free; the company does not publicly disclose subscription or premium pricing tiers.

The business model is advertising-supported. Cafef sells display advertising, sponsored content, and branded sections to enterprise clients primarily in the financial services, corporate, and consumer sectors through direct enterprise sales, with Admicro serving as a channel partner for ad distribution. No API, SDK, or documented data-licensing business is disclosed. Marketing and distribution are content-led, relying on SEO-optimized Vietnamese-language editorial, a recurring-utility Liveboard, email newsletters, push notifications, and mobile-app distribution to drive daily traffic. Only one named management figure is disclosed — Nguyễn Thế Tân, responsible for content oversight (Chịu trách nhiệm nội dung) — indicating a lean disclosed leadership footprint.

Name

Cafef

Legal name

Công ty Cổ phần VCCorp

Website

https://cafef.vn

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cafef is a Vietnamese financial media and market-data platform, operating since 2007 under VCCorp, that serves retail investors, business professionals, and financial institutions with real-time stock data via Liveboard, economic news, portfolio tracking, and analytical tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial News and Market Data Media

NAICS

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523)

SIC

Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) & Revenue-Based Financing (FSAKAGAD)

Keywords

• Financial news media
• Stock market data
• Investment information
• Securities market analysis
• Economic journalism

Headquarters

HQ city

Hanoi

HQ country

Vietnam

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Cafef (Kênh thông tin kinh tế - tài chính Việt Nam) is a Vietnamese financial and economic news portal that publishes real-time stock market data, in-depth financial news, expert market analysis, and investor education content covering securities, banking, real estate, macroeconomics, and international finance. Its flagship offering is a real-time electronic price board (Bảng giá điện tử / Liveboard) combined with editorial news, portfolio tracking, analyst reports, and corporate disclosure data, all delivered through its website, mobile app, and email channels.

Product overview

Cafef is a comprehensive Vietnamese economic and financial news and information platform offering a multi-product ecosystem centered around real-time stock market data and financial news. The core platform includes the Bảng giá điện tử (Liveboard) for real-time trading data, Danh mục đầu tư for portfolio tracking, and CafeF Lists for market rankings. Supporting products include commodity prices (Hàng hóa), fund certificates (Chứng chỉ quỹ), gold prices (Giá vàng), interest rates (Lãi suất), lottery results (Kết quả xổ số), and sports data (Sport Data). The platform also features specialized tools like Công cụ PTKT for technical analysis, Báo cáo phân tích for analyst reports, and Lịch ĐHCĐ for shareholder meeting schedules. Additional offerings include Magazine/eMagazine for in-depth storytelling and the AGM Awards program for corporate recognition.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bảng giá điện tử (Liveboard) Real-time electronic stock market data board providing live trading prices, market indices, foreign trading data, and market breadth analysis for Vietnamese retail investors and traders.
• Danh mục đầu tư (Investment Portfolio) Investment portfolio tracking tool that allows users to monitor their stock holdings and performance.
• CafeF Lists Rankings and lists of top companies and richest people on the Vietnamese stock market, including Top 200 richest, Top 50 women, and Top families.
• Dữ liệu chứng khoán (Stock Market Data) Comprehensive stock market data product including foreign trading history, company data, financial results, and analyst reports for Vietnamese investors.
• Giá vàng / Bạc (Gold and Silver Prices) Real-time gold and silver prices covering both domestic and international markets for Vietnamese retail users.
• Lãi suất - Tỷ giá (Interest Rates and FX) Interest rates and foreign exchange rates from Vietnamese banks, delivered as a data product on Cafef.
• Hàng hóa (Commodities) Commodity prices and data product covering agricultural products and energy markets.
• Chứng chỉ quỹ (Fund Certificates) Fund certificate data product showing NAV prices, performance returns, and fund issuer information.
• Kết quả xổ số (Lottery Results) Lottery results data product providing Vietnamese lottery draw outcomes.
• Sport Data Sports data product including football/soccer scores, standings, and match schedules.
• Magazine / eMagazine Digital magazine offering in-depth stories and coverage of Vietnam's 40-year Đổi Mới (Renovation) economic transformation.
• AGM Awards Annual award program recognizing excellence in corporate governance and shareholder practices among Vietnamese listed companies.

Quantifiable outcome

• Cafef is recognized as one of Vietnam's top financial news and market data platforms by traffic and readership

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• VCCorp (Công ty Cổ phần VCCorp)coreOthers
• AdmicrocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• VietnamNet: VietnamNet is a major Vietnamese general news portal with a business/finance vertical. It is thematically related to Cafef as a domestic media competitor for ad budgets and reader attention, but does not offer Cafef's depth of real-time market-data tooling.

Broad incumbents

• Reuters: Reuters is a global financial news and data provider that competes for the international-finance and corporate-news audience that Cafef also serves within Vietnam, representing the broader incumbent reference point.
• Bloomberg: Bloomberg is the global benchmark for financial news, data, and analytics. While it does not serve Vietnamese-language content at Cafef's depth, it represents the international standard for the kind of integrated news-plus-data financial media business Cafef operates at the local level.
• VnExpress: VnExpress is Vietnam's largest general news portal, with a substantial business/finance section that competes for advertising dollars and financial-news readership, making it a broad-incumbent peer rather than a pure-play financial media competitor.

Direct peers

• Vietstock: Vietstock is one of Cafef's closest direct peers — a leading Vietnamese financial portal offering real-time stock quotes, market data, company financials, and financial news, targeting the same retail investor audience with a comparable product mix.
• Fireant: Fireant is a Vietnamese stock data and social-investing platform that combines real-time market data, portfolio tracking, and community-driven analysis — directly comparable to Cafef's Liveboard and portfolio tools.
• NDH (Nghiepthitruong): NDH is a Vietnamese financial media outlet focused on market news, company analysis, and investment commentary, serving the same retail investor and business professional segments as Cafef.
• Tinnhanhchungkhoan (Securities Times): Securities Times is a long-established Vietnamese financial newspaper and digital portal covering stock market news, corporate announcements, and analysis, competing with Cafef for the same retail-investor readership.

Regional players

• Investing.com: Investing.com is a global multi-asset financial data and news platform that covers Vietnamese equities and FX among many markets — comparable as a data product peer, though it does not produce local-language Vietnamese editorial content at Cafef's depth.

Emerging players

• Cophieu68: Cophieu68 is a Vietnamese retail-investor portal offering stock screeners, financial data, and analysis tools — a smaller-scale direct competitor to Cafef with overlap in retail investor data products.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cafef-magazine

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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